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From acclaimed author Sol Luckman comes SNOOZE, the riveting, coming-of-age tale of one extraordinary boy's awakening to the world-changing reality of his dreams, winner of the National Indie Excellence® Award (2015).Join Max Diver, aka "Snooze," along the razor's edge of a quest to rescue his astronaut father from a fate stranger than death in the exotic, perilous Otherworld of sleep.An insightful look at a plethora of paranormal subjects, from Bigfoot and lucid dreaming to time travel via the Bermuda Triangle, SNOOZE also shines as a work of literature featuring iconic characters, intense drama and breathless pacing to stir you wide awake!Written with young adult and young-at-heart readers in mind, SNOOZE further proved its literary merit by receiving an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Beach Book Festival Prize competition.
Snooze: A Story of Awakening, by Sol Luckman- Amazon Sales Rank: #1453739 in Books
- Published on: 2016-04-07
- Released on: 2016-04-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.22" w x 6.00" l, 1.56 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 486 pages
Review "SNOOZE is a book for readers ready to awaken from our mass cultural illusion before we self-destruct." --Merry Hall, Co-Host of ENVISION THISSNOOZE is "a moving story ... a multi-dimensional, many-faceted gem of a read. From mysteries to metaphysics, entering the dream world, Bigfoot, high magic and daring feats of courage, this book has it all ... I highly recommend [SNOOZE] for all ages. It's an exciting journey within." --Lance White, author of TALES OF A ZANY MYSTIC"Luckman's dazzling abilities as a novelist abound with lyrical prose ... Although [SNOOZE] chronicles a boy's transition into manhood, I would not consider it young adult. The provocative subject matter of science and spirituality is very mature ... If you enjoy colorful characters, a fast-paced plot and stories that tug at your heart, this novel in eighty-four chapters is anything but a yawn." --Suzanne Cowles for Readers' Favorite"SNOOZE is without doubt one of the best coming of age, awakening books that I have ever read, and it had me entranced from the beginning to the end." --Ingrid Hall, Author & Freelance Editor"This was the first novel I had ever read by Sol Luckman but I will certainly be reading more of his work now. I would recommend this to all readers as the story truly holds a lot. It was deep, it was humorous and it left nothing to be desired." --OnlineBookClub.org"SNOOZE is a captivating coming-of-age tale about a gifted boy traveling to a fantastical realm to save his father ... Thanks to author Sol Luckman's writing ability, SNOOZE can be enjoyed by readers of all ages, despite being aimed at young adults. Right off the bat, the writing is engaging and captures the attention." --Indiereader.comSNOOZE is "a magnificent act of power, a novel brought forth for the Second Renaissance, the Return of Wisdom ... [G]et ready for the ride of a lifetime. You won't want to stop." --OracleReport.com
From the Author My earliest dreams were lucid ones offlying. I have a particularly vivid memory of soaring above my father'stobacco fields where I used to hunt for arrowheads as a boy.There was a technique to flying in my dreams--akin to the way a condor rides thermal currents to corkscrew higher or lower. Thefeeling was one of exhilaration almost beyond description ... like walking into the light upon dying, or emerging into it at birth.I can still visualize the red clay of the tobacco fields falling awaybeneath me as I ascended--until they resembled not so muchthe fertile Cherokee relic hunting grounds of my leisure, but ratherirregular red pepper flakes fallen at random on a green tablecloth.Perhaps it's not surprising I should return to the theme of lucid dreams offlying in my new novel, SNOOZE: A STORY OF AWAKENING. After all, suchdreams persisted well beyond my childhood and occur even today.Not infrequently, my lovely partner, Leigh, ever patient with my foibles,is awoken in the dead of night by my odd habit of putting an arm abovemy head in sleep--as if I'm slicing through the air. Fortunately, overtime she has cultivated the ability to ignore this eccentricity.Fittingly, the idea for SNOOZE came to me one morning as I lay in bed attemptingto shake off a dream of flying.My then nine-year-old son, deep in the throes of superhero addiction, satbeside me on wake-up-dad duty and casually remarked that I looked like a superhero myself in my blue, lavender-scented sleeping mask.(Lucid dreamer or no, I'm an infamously light sleeper, and find thatdarkness does wonders for my pineal's production of sleep-inducingmelatonin.)"You think so?" I managed to ask, removing my mask, through a yawn."Definitely," he replied with absolute confidence. "You could call yourself Snooze."This seemingly casual exchange mysteriously opened up the floodgates of mycreative consciousness--and soon I had composed thefirst chapter of the novel that would come to be called SNOOZE.I had in mind to write something indeed like a superhero story--but abelievable one, a far cry from the standard stretched affairs currentlygracing so many silver screens.I also had a notion to write a book about how real magic, as opposed to a load of hocus pocus involving wizards and wands, might function in--andultimately change--the real world.By "real magic," I mean just that. Specifically, I'm referring to thelongstanding tradition of seemingly miraculous abilities called siddhisin Vedic lore--which are understood not as superhuman capacities so muchas inherent to, if submerged in, human nature.Siddhis come in a number of varieties, but common ones, witnessed by thousandsof people over the ages, include telekinesis (moving objects with themind), telepathy (ESP), and levitation or flying.Historically documented in numerous individuals, from Indian gurus to the Catholicpriest, Padre Pio, such powers are said to emerge organically fromwithin the human being, often in connection with pineal gland activation and lucid dreaming.The idea of siddhis had fascinated me ever since I first learned of them in college. It was mind-blowing that one of the oldest systems of personal development onthe planet--the Vedic tradition of India--insisted, in essence, thateveryone inherits the capability of becoming a superhero!Begging the question ... What would it actually be like to experience thesprouting and flowering of these inborn occult powers in oneself?This question guided me during the character development of my protagonist,Max Diver, a boy "gifted" with just such abilities that immediatelybegin to reveal themselves only to grow more intense as thenovel progresses.In exploring this esoteric theme, rather than just shooting from the hipwith wild-eyed speculation, I drew on a wealth of established knowledge, often of a scientific bent.Obviously, I'm indebted to Carl Jung's influential theories on the relationshipbetween the unconscious and the subconscious and states of wakingconsciousness in personal "alchemy."Subtitled "A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-death & Mystical Experiences," Rick Strassman's seminal DMT: THE SPIRITMOLECULE served as a starting place for theorizing the role played bythe pineal gland in the development of human potential.Dewey Larson's Reciprocal System of physical theory (shortened to"Reciprocal Theory"), elaborated in such classics as THE UNIVERSE OFMOTION and BEYOND SPACE & TIME, became the touchstone for SNOOZE'sphysics of parallel universes.The notion of mirroring realities in a unified field, further developed and applied by David Wilcock in THE SOURCE FIELD INVESTIGATIONS and byyours truly in POTENTIATE YOUR DNA, was already near and dear to my heart.In SNOOZE I had the highly satisfying opportunity to "try on" how themystical realm of time-space might be literally experienced from theperspective of the everyday world of space-time ... for someone capable of making, and surviving, the journey.Finally, we come to SNOOZE's treatment of Bigfoot, or Sasquatch. The instant Isaw THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK as a kid, I was simultaneously terrifiedand hooked by the thought that a giant, hairy apeman might somehowinhabit the fringes of consensus reality.As an adolescent circa 1980, long before the current FINDING BIGFOOTcraze, I went so far as to go on "squatching" expeditions in search ofthe creature in the woods of Appalachia--to the general amusement, andmild derision, of my family and friends.I never encountered Bigfoot, never saw so much as a smudgy footprint ofquestionable provenance, but to paraphrase Journey's Steve Perry, Inever stopped believing.Lloyd Pye, author of INTERVENTION THEORY and a major inspiration behind thetheory of cryptids, or mysterious creatures, outlined in SNOOZE, neverstopped believing either.Pye's research in genetics, Bigfoot and human origins directly challenges scientific orthodoxy and dogma.Pointing out that slow-moving, dimwitted, diurnal pandas were once thought by "scientific" Westerners to be merely creatures oflegend, he logically asked why couldn't fast, intelligent, nocturnalSasquatches exist?"Some explained their elusiveness by pointing out that less than fortypercent of the earth's surface was fit for human habitation," we read in SNOOZE. "That left fully sixty percent of the planet--much ofwhich was poorly surveyed even if it had managed to be explored--as apotential habitat far from human eyes for any number of cryptids,including Sasquatch."As for why no fossilized Bigfoot bones supposedly had ever been found,Max's mother pointed out that practically no fossilized monkey bones had ever been discovered either, for the simple reason that fossils didn'tform in the heavily forested areas inhabited by monkeys. If Bigfootslived in similar places, as often reported, it only made sense that they wouldn't leave fossils either."Call it poetic justice or subliminal programming--but I finished thefirst half of SNOOZE while sojourning in Humboldt County, California,close to Bluff Creek, where the famous Patterson-Gimlin film purportingto capture a female Sasquatch strolling through the woods was shot.In my treatment of the Bigfoot phenomenon, be it reality or legend,"Patty" became fictionalized as "Zana," a nod to the renowned Russianhominoid. Pye wrote in great and convincing detail about Zana, anapewoman who for decades was a member of a remote village, where sheworked as a laborer and bore simian-looking progeny to human fathers.In closing, I wish to assure Pye--who recently passed away from space-time and is perhaps awakening in time-space even as I write--that, at leastin the pages of SNOOZE, Zana lives!Copyright © Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.
About the Author Sol Luckman is a pioneering ink painter whose work has been featured on mainstream book covers and an acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction.His books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING and its popular sequel, POTENTIATE YOUR DNA.Sol's visionary novel, SNOOZE: A STORY OF AWAKENING, the coming-of-age tale of one extraordinary boy's awakening to the world-changing reality of his dreams, won the National Indie Excellence® Award (2015).Written with young adult and young-at-heart readers in mind, SNOOZE further proved its literary merit by receiving an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Beach Book Festival Prize competition.Sol's forthcoming book of humor and satire, THE ANGEL'S DICTIONARY: A SPIRITED GLOSSARY FOR THE LITTLE DEVIL IN YOU, will be published in 2016.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. SNOOZE WILL WAKE YOU UP! By Burl and Merry Hall Snooze is a book for readers ready to awaken from our mass cultural illusion before we self-destruct. Snooze calls out for readers who are up to the challenging adventure of opening their minds. It illustrates, in intriguing story form, the possibilities that imagination, dreams, visions, paranormal experiences, and lucid dreaming may hold the keys to resolving the ecological, economic, social, and political deadlocks we are currently experiencing.The characters have names that point to their archetypal significance, but also have decidedly unique adventures that reveal their individuality as fully developing human (and more-than-human) beings. Snooze introduces us to a diversified yet uncannily unified set of characters headed up by:Maxwell Andrew Diver, an uncommon boy not only in his supernatural capabilities, such as ESP or the ability to heal with touch, but also in his intelligence and courageCaptain Thomas Diver, Max’s father, Navy pilot and celebrated NASA astronaut, “the proverbial insider, a folk hero, a golden boy who could do no wrong”Dr. Cynthia Holden Diver, Max’s mother, a maverick anthropologist specializing in cryptozoology—a fancy word for the study of mysterious, officially unacknowledged creatures, who died in childbirth with Max but, nonetheless, forms with him “a dynamic duo…of quintessential outsiders…with eccentric notions”Tuesday Monday, Max’s best friend, whom teachers were unanimous in thinking “some kind of prodigy” but who “paid the price for her precociousness by being ostracized as the resident nerd”Dr. Morrow, Navy doctor considered an expert in sleep disorders, who wants to “study” Max as a subject in his experimentsAnd these are only some of the fascinating people in Max’s “real” or waking world of space-time. Wait until you meet their counterparts in Max’s dream world of time-space, a world that he maintains is equally “real”!If you love a not-so-classic tale of Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey”, travel along with Max on his very adventurous flight into parts of reality we seldom dare to explore. You will be richly rewarded with hidden treasures that could awaken you to the hero and the mission buried within you. You may, incidentally, also discover a new and paradoxical relationship between science and fiction—normally considered incompatible routes in the quest for truth.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Loved this book!! By SJS St. Thomas Utterly engrossing!! This is truly a riveting “becoming awake” adventure. With an undercurrent of Max’s acceptance of who he is, this wonderfully spun tale touches so many topics that benefit us all to have in our consciousnesses. While the story is presented as fiction, there is so much to learn here. Google was my constant companion as I read, discovering so many ideas new to me, presented in this story, that actually have their basis in this reality, as well as learning of intriguing people I’d never heard of before.Discussing this book will be an easy way to begin conversations on many interesting topics that otherwise might be difficult to initiate.Presented as a “coming of age” story; this book is more than sophisticated enough (not to mention well written) to keep even the most discerning “adult” reader highly engaged.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Coming of Age for All of Us By Cheryl A. Chatfield A coming of age story about Max, the main character, as we see him in his twelfth year and then in college after having lost both parents. This is also a coming of age story, on larger scale, as our world is entering a time of Awakening, and Luckman provides some details on this process based on science, even if not mainstream science.This story reminds us of the importance of love and our connection with family. With love and a willingess to trust in the order of universe, we lose fear. We watch as the character learns to join the flow of life rather than fight natural instincts and intuition. In addition to this message of love and importance of others, which is a common message done in a unique way, there is a second one of accepting that there is more to the world than this physicality, that there is another reality.The story asks us to open or awaken to possibilities that we might know on some level but are reluctant to accept, because they might force us to alter our current lives. Each reader will find a personal connection.When reading, I want learning, not just a well-written and action-packed story. Luckman provides both. His characters experience parallel lives, astral travel on steroids and the importance of dreams. Lucid dreaming, another reality to assimilate into our lives.I personally found the story significant as I am experimenting with out of body experiences. Books come to us at the right time in life. Snooze: A Story of Awakening provides an incentive on many levels and is a must read for anyone opening to the new concepts confronting us all.
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